BERKELEY WEST EDGE OPERA's The Carmen Fixation,
featuring Buffy Baggott in her signature role, in which she's been called
"Cleopatra spiced with nearly every role Dietrich ever played."
Set in a nightclub and focusing on the obsessions of the principal actors  this version keeps Bizet's marvelous music but tells the intimate story of people caught in the grip of passions they can't even explain to themselves.